Photograph album for travels through Central and South America
Title (alt.):
Meyer Shapiro photograph album
Description:
Likely incomplete photograph album illustrating a trip through Central and South America in the 1910s and 1920s, including stops at the Panama Canal. The photographs include shots of dredgers on the river and trips taken by boat, as well as tourist shots of buildings and public statues Photograph album depicting the travels of an unidentified individual or group through Central and South America
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Records gifted to the Center for the History of Medicine by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1978, with a later accrual in 2009
Donated by Mark Schapiro Meyer to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The photograph album was recovered by Meyer after a house fire that destroyed part of his family's library. Meyer donated the album to the Society in memory of his father who had assembled it
